Opened 19 years ago
Closed 17 years ago
#1749 closed defect (wontfix)
administrative fields clutter the screen
| Reported by: | Owned by: | Christian Boos | |
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| Priority: | normal | Milestone: | |
| Component: | ticket system | Version: | devel |
| Severity: | normal | Keywords: | |
| Cc: | Branch: | ||
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Description
When using a trac env where I have TRAC_ADMIN or TICKET_ADMIN permission, I am sometimes presented with more functionality/power than I need day-to-day (delete this page, change ticket description, etc.)
These clutter the screen, and increase the risk of me changing/breaking something accidentally.
I would propose a function where you have a default set of permissions when you log in, and you can switch into admin mode, which will give you all of your admin permissions (or the other way round).
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Change History (6)
follow-up: 2 comment:1 by , 19 years ago
| Summary: | Toggle in and out of admin mode for users with TRAC_ADMIN permission and similar → administrative fields clutter the screen |
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comment:2 by , 18 years ago
Replying to mgood:
Well, I don't really see the buttons as a problem.
I don't have a problem with the administrative buttons either — if needed, you can always create a separate admin user to do administrative tasks only, similar to the Unix philosophy to only log in as root when you need to.
comment:3 by , 18 years ago
… this is mitigated by the fact that it's not easy to "switch" identity (related to #791)
comment:4 by , 18 years ago
| Component: | general → ticket system |
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| Milestone: | → 0.11 |
| Owner: | changed from to |
We could make the description field collapsed by default, e.g. attachment:toggle-description-r5118.diff
by , 18 years ago
| Attachment: | toggle-description-r5118.diff added |
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Make the description field hidden by default
comment:5 by , 17 years ago
| Milestone: | 0.11.1 |
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| Resolution: | → wontfix |
| Status: | new → closed |
Well, I don't really see the buttons as a problem. However, the ticket description field can get in the way when you're not using it. Rather than toggling the admin privileges I'd rather change the UI a bit so that it's not a problem. Perhaps making the description section collapsible with a bit of JavaScript would work.